The state of our world. And the mental health crisis.

Lately I have been thinking about the state of the world.

Our lives are removed from nature.

We are living detached from our bodies.

And are taught that only through analysis can we get to the truth.

I do not know of a single person who believes that the world we have built is in the best interest of our collective human race…

Many people are struggling to thrive in this unnatural way of living.

And so, we diagnose them. We diagnose ourselves.

But who will diagnose the world we have built?

How can you expect someone to find joy and hope and vibrancy when the system is distorted?

In The Art of Being , the renowned psychotherapist Erich Fromm, makes an important distinction between the neurosis of “a sane man living in an insane society” and “a sick man trying to adapt himself to a sick society”.

The mental health crisis we are in will not be fixed by decreasing the taboo around therapy.

The mental health crisis is a direct result of the world we have built.

The lies they have told us.

And the years we have spent believing it.

There is no doubt that people are suffering today and need help.

Therapy can help.

But therapy alone will not heal our suffering.

Healing will require we tap into a collective consciousness that gives us a reason for being.

Healing will require we remember that we are human. That we are part of a larger human experience.

Healing will require that we learn to be human first.